Unhealthy network-centric

The scale and opportunities of non-military means of opposition has increased significantly. Their effect is sometimes comparable to the effects of traditional hostilities, and sometimes exceeds them. What is clearly demonstrated by the cold war against the Soviet Union, when the personnel and military equipment of the soviet armed forces remained intact, and the country did not. In this context there is a need to clarify the concepts of "War" and "War", to analyze the essence and content of modern warfare, to define the tasks of military science. Define smallamounts a lot of scientific and pseudo-scientific definitions of war, but unambiguous interpretation of the term, due to the complexity of the phenomenon. And the characteristics of such thinkers and military theorists as sun tzu, montecuccoli, clausewitz, and the archduke karl, delbrück, svechin, montgomery, etc. , can be summarized in several groups:1.

Natural and eternal condition of states and peoples. 2. The continuation of politics by other, violent means. 3. Armed struggle between states, peoples, classes, and hostile parties. 4. Form of conflict resolution. I focus only on those that are used now. In the fundamental work of the department of military history and law of the academy of natural sciences "Military history of Russia" scientific task definition of war has the following content: war is the armed confrontation, the state of society, a way of regulating relations between states, social forces and the resolution of disputes, contradictions between them. In the military encyclopedic dictionary this is the definition of war: "The socio-political phenomenon, a special state of society, associated with a sharp change in the relations between states, peoples, social groups and the transition to the organized use of means of armed violence". However, if you agree with the assertion that war is only the use of military force, then from the second world should be deleted period, when there was the "Phony war" Britain and France against Germany.

From the hundred years war will be only a few years, and from thirty – few months. In our understanding a war is antagonistic confrontation between civilizations, states, nations, social groups, which can be conducted in various forms (combinations) – ideological, economic, psychological, diplomatic, informational, military and. New life old terminologicheskii a state of war in most countries today is determined and approved by the highest state authorities. In Russia – on the basis of the federal law "On defense" (article 18) in case of armed attack by another state or group of states, as well as the implementation of international treaties. In the United States after the attacks of 11 september 2001, president bush officially announced that the country is at war. The us army had two strategic operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, culminating in the change of the ruling regime. Interestingly, according to NATO's strategic concept (article 10) the main pretexts of the use of the armed forces of the alliance (security threats) can be:uncertainty and insecurity in Europe;the possibility of regional crises at the periphery of NATO;inadequate or failed attempts at reform;the breakup of states;human rights violations;economic, social and political problems in some countries;the existence of nuclear forces outside NATO;acts of terrorism, sabotage and organized crime;uncontrolled movements of large masses of people;the possibility of trying other countries to influence the information networks of the alliance to counter his superiority in traditional weapons;violation of the inflow of vital resources.

In other words, under these threat definitions can sum up any country. In the reaction of the Russian ministry of defense on this document states: "The declared right to conduct military operations in any area of the globe in its sole discretion without un sanctions, in disregard of the sovereignty and inviolability of borders, national interests of other states". International law in this case replaced by a strong right, which under the demagogic flag of concern about the rights of man invades a sovereign country, there intervenes in the internal processes, overthrow undesirable regimes. Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria – the examples could go on. Thus, a "State of war" can now be defined as the imposition of one or more countries to its will by means of violence, threat of loss of sovereignty. The relationship of war and politicophobia to note how has changed the relationship of war and politics.

As is known, since k. Clausewitz (and in Russia with the filing of lenin) war has always been interpreted as a continuation of state policy by other means. However, in the 30-ies of the last century the soviet military theorist a. Svechin believed that policy became a front of the war itself. Modern war is not officially declared.

The enemy inside lamenting the influence on its national consciousness. This supported the political opposition, dissident, marginal structures, media, ethnic, religious and other contradictions, driven by distrust of the leadership of the country and the army, destroyed the spiritual and moral foundations of society, initiation of ethnic and religious hatred, encouraged terrorists and separatists. Undermined faith in the economic and political stability in the mass consciousness embedded apathy and depression, stimulates the evasion of military service, desertion, thrown about information panic rumors. All this leads to the loss of national identity, wrapping the collapse of the state.

This technology is the basis of all "Color revolutions", the result of which is a change of regime and the coming to power of the aggressor loyal politicians. Martial art belongs to the people"Want peace – prepare for war," counseled the roman historian cornelius nepos in the first century bc. With the 20-ies of the last century was a popular saying of lloyd george that generals always prepare for last war. Its correctness was confirmed at the beginning of the second world war. The main cause of enormous losses and failures of the red army in the initial period was that the soviet leadership was prepared to fight the old way, using the experience of the civil and the soviet-finnish wars. But as you know, history teaches nothing, it only punishes for unlearned lessons.

Not to be punished, you need not only to know the past and anticipate the future. Approval of the military historian a. Kamenev, the main defect of the Russian strategic thought was the mindless copying of foreign models and forgetfulness of our theorists. There is an example of copying the soviet marshal m. Tukhachevsky's theory of reference of the brief war, created in the early twentieth century the german general field marshal schlieffen ("The doctrine of the schlieffen"), which was the plan of lightning defeat of the enemy crushing blow on one of the flanks of the strategic front.

With this as a basis, tukhachevsky substantiated offensive strategy and developed the theory of deep battle, continuous operations on the same strategic direction. This doctrine ("To fight a little blood, big hit on foreign soil"), are not covered and thought about the possibility of defence, was the cause of the catastrophic defeat of the soviet troops in 1941-1942. The work of Russian military scientists today should be based on the law: "The art of war national. " it is necessary to develop and promote their own theories, forms and methods of application of groups of troops (forces) and not try to use Western development as a procrustean bed for the domestic thoughts. Today, however, in the minds of the military-political leadership of Russia actively promoted the idea that the upcoming war will be, as a rule, network-centric and non-contact with an emphasis on precision weapons. Developed in the United States the concept of such a war, based on the increase in the total combat power of military forces by reducing them to a single network, it becomes in the eyes of some domestic theorists of the new paradigm of armed struggle. However, the analysis of combat operations of the us army for the last 20 years shows that the concept of network-centric warfare is good in military conflicts low and medium intensity against a weak opponent, having armed with advanced intelligence systems, primarily satellite, powerful weapons, including the wto, long-range, modern systems of control and communication. Therefore, network-centric cannot be regarded as a panacea.

And if predominant will be imposed on the U.S. Position that the war will, as a rule, non-contact, using mainly non-nuclear high-precision weapons, our army and navy have no chance to win. If, however, as an asymmetric response to prepare the contact war with the entire available arsenal, the finale will be completely different. In general, the analysis of this concept allows to consider it as a new way of organizing troops and weapons control, a tool to improve the combat capabilities of heterogeneous forces and means, but not as a theory. A solution to the problem of interaction between different branches of the armed forces and the armed forces was proposed in 1996 (the full results of the research presented in the monograph "Theory of interaction of forces," published by "University book").

Unfortunately, the general staff did not pay attention to this work and other "War: science and art", which appeared in 2016. The basis of their theoretical constructions "Five rings" the american scholar, the warden put the well-known principle of clausewitz's "Center of gravity" of the enemy. He described the "Centers of gravity" as "The point at which the enemy is most vulnerable, and the attack against him will be most effective. " this theory formed the basis of the actions of the us and NATO against yugoslavia in 1999. However, it is completely ineffective in the fight against quasi-states, which are currently prohibited in Russia, ISIS, Libya, Iraq. There is no unified political leadership, life support systems, clearly distinct.